William Baker (bishop of Zanzibar)

The Rt Rev[1] William Scott Baker,[2] MA( 22 June 1902 - 30 November 1990) was Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar[3] from 1943[4] until 1968.[5]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family,[6] educated at Aldenham and King's College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1927 after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon.[7] He was Chaplain of his old college and Assistant Curate of St Giles with St Peter’s Church, Cambridge from 1925 to 1932. After this he was Vicar of St John The Baptist’s, Newcastle on Tyne [8] when he was elevated to the episcopate.[9]

References

  1. ↑ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  2. ↑ National Archives
  3. ↑ Diocesan web site
  4. ↑ Ecclesiastical News. The Times(London, England), Monday, Jul 19, 1943; pg. 6; Issue 49601
  5. ↑ Church News The Times (London, England), Friday, Feb 16, 1968; pg. 12; Issue 57177.
  6. ↑ His father was The Rev Canon William Wing Carew Baker, sometime Vicar of Southill, Bedfordshire ‘BAKER, Rt. Rev William Scott’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 2 Aug 2012
  7. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 London, OUP, 1947
  8. ↑ Church details
  9. ↑ Mundus
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Thomas Howard Birley		 Bishop of Zanzibar
1925–1943 		Succeeded by
Yohana Jumaa